hitman 2 being 2019 november and hitman 3 being early 2022 doesnt really sit right with me. why the big gap between haven and dubai time linewise.
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But then there is also the calendar in Mendoza which is puts the Yates’s 15th anniversary in 2021. As I said earlier, timeline is messy due to so many inconsistencies.
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I think this was more due to the pandemic than IO’s creative decisions.
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I am confused. Where did they say that Hitman 2016 is set in 2019?
I always thought it was set in 2016 because, well, it was developed in 2016 
I feel stupid now 
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Most likely due to the title you can see in the first scene of the prologue chapter.
47 joined ICA in 1999, so naturally the Showstopper would be in 2019. Then a year after 1999, C47 took place, 47 then went on a journey of never ending contract killings.
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Hm? That makes no sense? Why should he join the ICA in 1999 and come back to the asylum, having the events of C47? Or do you mean it was set in between? Like, there was his escape from the asylum, then he joined the ICA as we saw it in the WoA prologue and after that the missions of C47 happened?
I’m very confused now Sorry, maybe I’m just slow today
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Also sanguine fashion show says 2019 on their posters of model reference pictures.
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hah im sorry for suddenly causing a huge debate about the messy timeline guys it’s always been clear IOI doesn’t care about dates so we shouldn’t either tbh
this website explains it well though: Hitman WOA Timeline Timeline
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Yup, sorry I forgot to specify which events set in between, but you got that right. I am no expert on C47 like @MrOchoa, but I supposed escaping the asylum took place in somewhere between 1998 and 1999. Then the five-father hunt took place. 
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Oh thank you for this!
Actually I am very interested in the whole timeline would love to see where the rest was set, like Silent Assassin, Absolution and so on.
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Wow thank you!! 
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The beginning is where it’s messed up because I’m not a C47 expert as well but then that means:
47 left the asylum after his training, joined the ICA, killed his fathers, found out Ort-Meyer was the client, got back to the asylum, killed him, left the asylum, then later joined the ICA (and they had no idea who 47 was, the only clues they had was a random asylum in Romania)
And also since pretty much all the games in the franchise happened the same year they were released (or close to), I think WoA is similar, they both had that “2019-2021” timeline from the beginning of development, and the “2016-2021” one on some of the stuffs
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You can use the Berlin Hippo to kill people! just add a trip wire mine and a few propane tanks.
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They updated this title card in Hitman 2/3 so its not an out-of-context “20 years earlier” as the very first thing you see in the game. (20 years earlier? Earlier from what? 
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I think it specifies that it’s 1999, in Greenland now. So, we can deduce that 20 years later…
Hitman 2016 Paris opens in 2019.
I pretty sure i remember hearing that fan assumption back in 2016 too.
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I could have believed that the entirety of the trilogy (minus the training missions) took place in the span of about a month and a half… most of the cut scenes make it seem as if stuff is happening with a lot more urgency than running for over two years.
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The time between Bangkok and Colorado took place over two weeks, as shown in the cutscene after Bangkok and the intel in Colorado, plus the two month time skip between Whittleton Creek and Isle of Sgail.
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I don’t see what’s so difficult to understand in regards to the C47 timeline?
- 47 escapes the asylum in 1998 (we know this from comics)
- proves his worth to the ICA (these are the tutorials in WOA) and joins them in 1999
- assassinates the five fathers in contracts that are later revealed to have come from the same person (Ort-Meyer)
- ends up having seconds thoughts about this whole assassination business once he travels down the rabbit hole of his origin at the asylum and vanishes for 2 and a half years.
When he contacts them again in late 2002 they of course welcome him back seeing as he was their top earner and the rest of the story goes on.
It would also make zero sense for WOA to be stretched over such a long period(2016-2021) as if you look at the events it’s clear as day that they all happen close to each other. Then there’s the whole ‘20 years earlier’ and WOA’s main writer himself stating in a video that it starts in 2019 and we already have a solved case.
Refer to 3:13
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I think IO deliberately chose to have it in 2019 to start because they suspected that it would be around the 2020-2021-2022 timeframe for them to release what, at the time, we’re going to be season 2 and season 3, and I don’t think they wanted to get too far ahead in the future, or have past events from 2016 become irrelevant by the time season 3 released. Ergo, they set the first game several years ahead from when it released, so that the story and real life would catch up with each other once the trilogy was done.
They’re even doing it now, with Freelancer presumably taking place after 47 and Diana start working again, a year after the main game ends… and it’s been a year for us too, now.
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